The last film of the outstanding South Korean director Kim Ki Duk, who passed away of covid two years ago, will also be shown in the International Competition of the XVI Eurasia International Film Festival. The film The Call of God, which has essentially become the creative testament of the master, has a unique fate, which is being told today by the program director of the film festival, President of the Association of Film Critics of Kazakhstan Gulnara Oiratovna Abikeeva.

– Kim Ki Duk, who was forced to leave his homeland, spent the last years in the Post-Soviet space, filmed both in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, and was going to work in the Baltic states. He managed to shoot his last picture and make the initial editing, but his Baltic colleagues were already doing the final editing. The film was supported by the Estonian producer Artur Weber, who will come to our festival and present this picture. The world premiere of the film took place this year at the 79th Venice Film Festival. It is a great joy for us that the picture will be shown at the Eurasia Festival. The film has themes peculiar to the cinema of Kim Ki Duk. This is a dream-reality, as in the Buddhist parable about whether a person dreams that he is a butterfly, or a butterfly dreams that she is a person who saw a butterfly in a dream. And the film itself is either a dream that the main character had, because the whole film is black and white, and at the end it becomes colored, or it is a reality that has been transformed into color as a result of the relationship of the characters. For the picture, we will set a limit of 16+, because, like all Kim Ki Duk's works, there are a lot of explicit scenes in it. It's about heightened human feelings, the love between a man and a woman, the passion that they are covered by. It is important for us that this film was shot in Kyrgyzstan and the main roles in it were played by Kyrgyz actor Abylai Maratov and Kazakh actress Zhanel Sergazina, who will be at our festival.